Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics: Forestry Commission Key Performance Indicators

Introduction The Forestry Commission’s arrangements for pre-release access to Official Statistics are described in a Pre-Release Access Statement¹.

This document supplements the statement by giving the names and/or job titles of all those persons to whom pre-release access has been granted to Forestry Commission Key Performance Indicators. The report covers 2 forms of pre-release access:

- Part 1 provides a list of those receiving pre-release access to the Official Statistics in their final form for briefing purposes. As this is a release covering England, the pre-release access period is limited to 24 hours.

- Part 2 provides a list of those receiving pre-release access for quality assurance purposes.

The justification for giving advance access to each listed recipient will be available on request.

Sheila Ward Forestry Commission Lead Official for Statistics Updated November 2020

¹ https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statistics/about-our-statistics/code-of-practice/pre-release-access-to-official-statistics/ Part 1: Pre-release access to final form (24 hours) (last updated November 2020)

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

- The Rt Hon George Eustice MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- The Rt Hon Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State
- Rebecca Pow MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
- Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity)
- Victoria Prentis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
- Edward Barker, Director
- Tim Brooks, Head of Forestry
- Naomi Matthiessen, Deputy Director, Forestry
- Isabella Murfin, Deputy Director, Forestry
- Ralph Weir, Policy Adviser
- Rory Lunny, Forestry Policy
- Jessica Jacques, Senior Strategic Communications Officer
- Mary Tomlinson, Communications
- Phoebe Brown, Communications
- Sam Richards, Special Adviser
- Sophia True, Special Adviser
- Emma Pryor, Special Adviser
- Sara Rajeswaran, Special Adviser

Forestry Commission:

- Sir William Worsley, Forestry Commission Chair
- Ian Gambles, Chief Executive Officer
- Richard Greenhous, Director of Forest Services
- Stephanie Rhodes, Delivery Director, England Tree Planting Programme
- Joe Watts, Head of Sustainable Forest Management
- Richard Britton, Head of Forest Services Delivery
- Anna Brown, Head of Plant Health Forestry and Contingency
- Mark Broadmeadow, Principal Adviser, Climate Change, Forest Services Forestry England:
- Michael Seddon, Chief Executive
- John Stride, Insight and Policy Manager
- Rebecca Ulewicz, Media Relations Officer

Part 2: Pre-release access for quality assurance (last updated November 2019)

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

- Lisa Smith, Plant Health
- Alan Macleod, Pest Risk Analyst

Forestry Commission:

- Joe Watts, Head of Sustainable Forest Management
- Steve Meeks, Chief of Staff
- Rob Pole, Spatial Analyst
- Sally Flett, Head of Internal Audit Operations, Government Internal Audit Agency
- Joanna Dixon, Senior Auditor, Government Internal Audit Agency
- Sarah Percy, Senior Auditor, Government Internal Audit Agency

Forestry England:

- Michael Seddon, Director of Operations
- John Stride, Policy and Insight Manager